As a graduate student, I was first drawn to Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309) because of her intensity. Here was a woman who, in a moment of devotion and penitence, stripped herself naked before the ...

With its countless crucifixion scenes and gold-leaf Madonna and Child icons, sexuality and unbridled desire might not be the first things that pop to mind when discussing Christian Medieval art. But ...

Mel Gibson is drawing on a long tradition of Cross-centered devotion. Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, acted on the repeated urgings of his Augustinian confessor, Staupitz, to “Look to the ...